Campbell grew up in Chester, a town of 6,500, about halfway between Columbia and Charlotte, N.C. At Chester High School, he is remembered as the only football player in the school's history twice named outstanding prep player in the state, twice selected for the S.C.-N.C. Shrine prep All-Star game and the only South Carolinian picked on the first Wigwam Wisemen All-America team.

Campbell was sought after by most every college football coach in the South but picked Georgia "because line coach J.B. Whitworth told me I would be a starter on the freshman team and a starter on the varsity as a sophomore." Campbell not only started as a sophomore, he was named to the All-SEC team. He was named Georgia's most outstanding lineman as a junior and senior and was top lineman in the College All-Star game, the Blue-Gray game and the Senior Bowl.

Says Bulldog historian Dan Magill, "Regardless of position, Campbell was one of the greatest football players Georgia ever had."
 

from: Georgia Trend